I'll start by saying I'm way in over my head. I'm CERTAIN this is obscenely simple, but I've Googled the hell out of this and I'm stumped.
I have two directories that I keep in sync; a local folder ...

After running my application which has Finder sync extension, i dont see the application name in "All" tab. Only app icon is being displayed. Even CFBundleDisplayName didn't helped. This is happening ...

This is a question on how to get Excel to interact with the Mac Finder. I have a table with hyperlinks that open a particular folder in the Finder:
=HYPERLINK("/path/to/file/", "open")
The folder is ...

Is there a framework in macOS that I can use to programmatically copy files and get a progress bar the same as copying files from Finder?
Alternatively, I can do the copy using cp or filesystem APIs ...

I'm building a mac-app for people to organise files. One of the things I allow people to do is to move or copy files to specific directories from within my app. I use FileManagers 'moveItem(at:to:)' ...

I'm looking to add Finder context menu to the right click on flies in explorer tab. I founded extension for Window Explorer (https://github.com/electrotype/vscode-windows-explorer-context-menu) but it ...

I am running mac OS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (17G4015) on a 2017 Macbook Pro 15"
Recently, finder doesn't find files the way I want it to; I'm certain that in the not too distant past, it treated ...

I'm a Python programmer that is trying to make a system of sorts that creates save data for a game I'm making, and I want it to be in different places in something like Ubuntu than I do macOS. As I ...

Please let me know if this question is better served elsewhere. To the extent that it is technical and potentially helpful to others, I'm hoping this post is okay (even though it is not code-related). ...

I'm creating Filemaker snapshot links to add to a project.
When I double click on the *.fmpsl files the Finder is opening FileMaker Advanced 16 even though the latest version I have on the system is ...

If I print the document directory when the simulator starts, I get this:
let simulatorPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)[0]
print(simulatorPath)
//...

On my old MacBook Pro I had locally networked computers in my sidebar. I cannot seem to add them on my new MacPro. Under Finder Preferences, there is no checkbox for network or shared drives. I can go ...

I want to use Finder Sync Extension(Dropbox and Google Drive) in terminal.
Then I want to get online link of local file.
We can do it by using Applescript like the below code.
But, this method needs "...

I'm using the Jenkins UI and I want to let the test fail if at least one of multiple regex occur in the console output. So I'm using Jenkins Text Finder in the Post-build Actions.
I want the test to ...

I have made an C++ Qt based application for Windows and have added the option to right click a file/folder in Windows Explorer and select "Upload with myProgram", which opens myProgram.exe and pass ...

on my linux server, I have mounted my zfs pool here: ~/data/homepool and ~/data is shared via afp. My macOS (high sierra) client can correctly see and read/write ~/data and in fact even write in data/...

I want to add a custom column in finder like name, size, type etc without kernel.
Is there any way in programming language for Mac OS (C/C++/ObjectiveC/Swift) without going to kernel.
Any help will ...

I'd like to start all files with the extension "py" from the finder in MAC using anaconda environment, just with clicking on the file.
Using the terminal with "python myfile.py" runs fine, but how can ...

Is there a way in Applescript to control visibility of a Finder's window "tab-bar" (don't know the english name)?
I know Applescript can get/set statusbar and toolbar visibility, but found nothing of ...

I have a folder that is set to open with a text editor, but I need it to open with Finder. The "Get Info" page offers a list of apps to choose from for "Open With", but the list does not include the ...

For a given NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel you can set a directory to show with:
[panel setDirectoryURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"/SomeFolder"]];
There you can set whatever path you like, but how can you ...

Please help, I can't think of a fix for this.
A folder action is meant to do this for each file copied into a folder:
Derive a subfolder name, and a new filename.
Create subfolder.
Move file into it....

I have a javascript I found but it starts with having the user choose a folder where it will grab files. I want to create a watch folder so I want to tell the javascript the folder to grab the files ...